Maybe I am back.

Hmmmmm scary thought I know, LOL. So I have been stitching a little in between making jam and pickles, trying to use up the last of the garden bounty. My 2 and half year old boy has become fascinated by my stitching but not the good kind. No sir not my little guy, do you think think he would sit quietly and watch Mommy work. Well if you haven't guessed the answer is no, he tries to grab the thread, tries to poke his own imaginary needle into my fabric, basically anything possible to bug Mommy. So here is my progress on my afghan.



I just need to go along and put the top coat of blue over all those half stitches, not sure I like this 2 different colours in 1 stitch idea.

A New Day And A New Start

So before we get into the stitchy stuff, I just had to share with you the new blog I found. But be warned you will gain weight, and don't blame me. So here it is http://buttercreambarbie.blogspot.com/ so far I've made the Abigail's Hotel Copycat Tomato Cheddar Loaf which was to die for, I left out the bacon because my teenage daughter is a vegetarian but it was still yummy. I also made the Lemon Tart yesterday, I really can't comment on that cause my family didn't leave me any the three of them finished it off while I was out shopping. Guess I will have to try that one again. I'm also trying the olive oil crackers that are on today's post just waiting for the dough to finish chilling. So if you like baking go and check out this site everything looks so yummy.

So at the beginning of the post I mentioned stitchy so the good news is I'm stitching again, I started something new. My friend is expecting her first baby so I thought I would give an afghan a try, not too sure I like stitching on the fabric but it might grow me on.



As you can see its not much of a start but it is a start, this chart calls for a weird way to stitch. I've tried to explain it to 3 people so far and I'm not doing a great job so I thought that I would post a pic to show you what I mean



I've never had a chart call for 2 colours before in one stitch like that. Have a wonderful fun filled day everyone.

Lost and Alone

I just want to apologize to my followers and to all the blogs out there in blog land that I follow. I don't know what is up with me, I'm in such a funk. I feel like in a hole that I have no way of getting out of ever. The things in life that use to give me such pleasure like stitching and working in my garden hold no interest what so ever with me. I feel like I'm just go through the motions of life, it just seems to tire me out. I forced myself to stitch a couple of days ago but I'm not enjoying it so what is the use. I sit down to type and update my blog and no words come to me, I feel empty and alone inside. I read the blogs that I follow daily but when I go to type a comment words escape me, I'm truly sorry for that. So once again to all my friends in blog land I've not forgotten you. I'll try to get my act together and shake myself out of this funk because what I'm doing right now is not good for me or my family. If anyone has been through this before maybe you can point me in the right direction because I feel so lost and alone right now. I promised myself when I started this blog that it would be stitching related only but I felt that I owed some people an explanation to where I have been. Hope I haven't depressed anyone.

Where has the time gone

Time seems to be like a run away train these days. Between chasing after my 2 1/2 year old, a large garden and trying to finish our house that we are building, lets just say life has completely taken over. That and I've had no desire to stitch. Last week it had been almost 2 months since I picked up a needle, scary I know. But the good news I seem to have found some of my stitching mojo again. I've picked up my Santa again, I'm so far behind on him its not funny. This was a piece I was stitching with a bunch of great Ladies for the Christmas Design Sal. Hopefully I can caught up to where I am suppose to be, keeping fingers crossed anyways. Here is to hopping for a complete return to my stitching power and a return to blog land.

What can go wrong has gone wrong

Just been one of those months. I was away for personal reasons for over 2 weeks. I borrowed a friends laptop while I was gone, guess what it crashed my first few days away. Then when I get home I find the fan in my computer stopped working so my processor and my hard drive got burnt to a crisp. So my computer was away getting rebuilt for 4 to 5 days. They say things come in 3's so finally got my computer back and a few things reinstalled when I started feeling horrible went to the Dr's and I ended up with an infection from my surgery. So needless to say, I'm back home and slowing getting my act together. I still need to install programs for the computer so no pictures till I find my camera software, lol. Not that there is a lot of pics to share. I'm going to go play catch up on some of my blogs that I need to read. Just thought I would explain my disappearing act. Hope everyone is enjoying their first day of June.

Great Shopping Day

I forgot to tell you that I went shopping today, nothing exciting but I had to stop at the local thrift store to drop off some of my son's clothes that he has out grown. While I was there I thought I would check to see if they had any stitching magazines or books and guess what I found?

This is all 264 skiens of DMC thread heaped up on my counter, not bad for 5 dollars.

What a nice start to the week, now to wind it all on floss holders.

Train of Dreams Update

Just thought I would post a pic of what I've been stitching on.

Seeing that it is the first Monday of the month, I had to pack this away for a week. So I'm back to working on Polar Santa for the Christmas design SAL. I'll post a pic of him later in the week.